A North Tyneside man has crashed into a Mercedes-Benz after his car caught fire on the way home from the garage following repairs. Kevin Bull, 51, spent almost a year searching for the perfect Mercedes E350 estate car, eventually settling on a 2016 model that “ticked all his boxes” and came with a one-year warranty … Read more
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense, short-lived bursts of radio waves originating from outside the Milky Way that can emit the same amount of energy in just thousandths of a second as it takes the Sun three days to emit. However, despite their power and the fact that up to 10,000 FRBs can erupt in … Read more
Enlarge / Artist’s rendering of how the angle of the polarized light from a fast radio burst changes as it travels through space. CHIME/Dunlap Institute Astronomers have been concerned about the origins of mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) since the first one was spotted in 2007. Researchers are now looking for the first time at … Read more
Enlarge / A slowly rotating neutron star is still our best guess as to the source of the mysterious signals. About a year ago, astronomers announced that they had observed an object that should not exist. Like a pulsar, it sent out regularly timed bursts of radio emissions. But unlike a pulsar, there were more … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Swift, illustrated here, is a collaboration between NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, Penn State in University Park, Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems in Dulles, Virginia. Other partners include the University … Read more